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Superfly will release her first best-of album "Superfly BEST" on September 25. Her new song "Bi-Li-Li Emotion" has been chosen as the theme song for TV Asahi's upcoming drama 'Doctor X ~Gekai Daimon Michiko~', which is starting this October.'Doctor X ~Gekai Daimon Michiko~' is a medical drama starring Yonekura Ryoko as an elite surgeon. In part 1 of the drama, which aired in 2012, Superfly's "Force" was used as the theme song. "Bi-Li-Li Emotion"

Actress Yonekura Ryoko will return as the gifted surgeon 'Daimon Michiko' who comes to work in a mini-skirt in a sequel to the hit drama 'Doctor X ~ Gekai Daimon Michiko' coming this fall.Yonekura plays a strong freelance surgeon who is unrestricted by any medical organization and possesses brilliant perception with the skills of a veteran doctor. Along with an intense development throughout the story, the original drama achieved great ratin

It was announced that Yonekura Ryoko's drama "Doctor X ~Gekai Daimon Michiko~" which was aired during October ~ December in 2012, will be getting a manga adaptation.
The manga will cover the drama's whole 8 episodes with Nakazono Miho's script as its base, and it will be illustrated by Kadota Hiroshi ("Sobaya Genan"). It will come with two volumes, and the first one "Doctor X BOOK.1" will go on sale on August 9."Doctor X" tells a story of "Dai

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Good gets better and bad gets worse. Monday drama 'PRICELESS' (Fuji TV) was among the former group and managed to break into the twenty-something ratings with a nice rise of 2.9% (rating: 20.1%). 'Perfect Blue' (TBS) fell by 1.0% again and recorded 7.6% while competing various specials.
On Tuesday, 'Osozaki no Himawari

On December 14, it was revealed that TV Asahi’s final episode serial drama “Doctor X ~Gekai Daimon Michiko~” (aired December 13, 9PM), which stars actress Yonekura Ryoko (37), garnered this year’s highest audience rating at an average of 24.4%.
The drama, which stars Yonekura in the role of a freelance female surgeon, has averaged 19.1% audience rating across all 8 episodes, which makes it the top prime time drama of the year. The final e

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This week started off with a weak Monday, as most of the networks lost viewers compared to last week. Looking at only the dramas, 'Perfect Blue' (TBS) lost 0.2% and recorded 8.6%, while 'PRICELESS' (Fuji TV) did well again with a rating of 17.2%, even though that meant a drop of 0.9% compared to its previous episode.
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After two weeks of mostly negative rating developments, more than just a few dramas have finally found the strength again to improve their season-averages.
The Monday dramas 'Perfect Blue' (TBS) and 'PRICELESS' (Fuji TV) did quite well this week with an improvement of 2.6% and 2.4%, respectively. 'Perfect Blue' recorde

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It was another awful weekend for most of the dramas with various new negative records.
Due to the public holiday on Friday, this report also includes the ratings from Thursday. As usual, many people didn't stay home at the evening before the holiday to watch TV and those who did only watched their most favorite shows.

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'PRICELESS' (Fuji TV) was the biggest winner this week. It gained 3.2% and climbed back up to a rating of 18.4%.
A few other dramas also managed to gain viewers this week. 'Perfect Blue' (TBS) improved by 0.7% (rating: 8.6%), 'Osozaki no Himawari' (Fuji TV) stopped its fall with a plus of 0.9% (rating: 8.9%), 'Sousa Ch

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The first four days of this week made it pretty obvious that the dramas were in for a depressing week.
Monday lost a lot of viewers in general compared to last week and it's strongest show, the drama 'PRICELESS' (Fuji TV) wasn't able to buck this trend as well. The drama starring Kimura Takuya lost 3.3% with its third